MaddowBlog-The failure of Trump's case against CNN offers lessons for other media outlets

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The demise of the president’s case is a demonstration of the benefits of fighting back — and of the folly of appeasement.

The failure of Trump’s case against CNN offers lessons for other media outlets
The demise of the president’s case is a demonstration of the benefits of fighting back — and of the folly of appeasement.

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— Redeem the soul America (@rneagle.bsky.social) 2025-11-19T22:50:46.208Z

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In 2022, roughly two years after Donald Trump lost his reelection bid, the Republican apparently thought it’d be a good idea to sue CNN for $475 million, alleging that the news network had defamed him and taken actions aimed at “defeating him politically.” My MS NOW colleague Hayes Brown took a closer look at the specific claims raised by Trump’s lawyers and concluded, “All told, this is less a case of defamation and more a case of crying ‘they were mean to me.’”

A lower court agreed and rejected the case in 2023. As my MS NOW colleague Jordan Rubin reported, an appellate court came to the same conclusion this week.

President Donald Trump lost his bid to revive his defamation lawsuit against CNN for the network’s use of the phrase ‘Big Lie,’ regarding his claims about the 2020 election he lost to Joe Biden. The unanimous ruling came from a three-judge appellate panel on Tuesday, with two of the judges being Trump appointees.

......In the weeks and months that followed, Trump has repeatedly pointed to these controversial settlement agreements as evidence of his targets’ guilt, even as those networks denied any wrongdoing.

Meanwhile, news organizations that stood up for themselves and pushed back against the ridiculous attempts at intimidation have prevailed.

Let this be a lesson to the larger political world: The only way to lose in a fight against Trump is to pursue a course rooted in appeasement. It’s true when it comes to law firms; it’s true when it comes to higher education; and it’s true in his court fights against news organizations.

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1. Yep...fighting back can work against tOrange turd

more people should try it. Books, movies and dissertations will go on for YEARS about what a vile POS this guy and his ilk are. Just pond scum all of them.